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I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.
I was just coming out of prison, I was married, and I had a kid, and I didn't know what to do, so I tried stand-up.
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
I've had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I'm proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.
When I was released from prison 15 years ago, I was given a $25 check and a bus ticket and told to start my life over.
I'm not fearful by nature, but I am vigilant. When you walk into a prison, it's important that a sixth sense kicks in.
Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
I didn't realize how famous I got since I went to prison. I got fan letters, but I didn't realize it blew up like that.
Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down.
Good-quality protein is very hard to come by in prison. Tuna is good, but tuna doesn't have texture. Mackerel is meaty.
When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for me.
I still remember, 40 years ago, when I was shackled and put in prison... Being an American citizen didn't mean a thing.
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.
Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.
He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.
I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.
Obviously this prison has been controversial ever since the first detainees arrived in Guantanamo more than 14 years ago.
The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.
Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.
No one doubts that having a criminal record - whether it results in community probation or prison - is a serious handicap.
Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough.
I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.
Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.
American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.
If somebody's in prison for non-violence, drug usage, and never committed a hard crime, they should be pardoned and let out.
Oh spare me, being stuck in your bedroom is not like prison. You don't have to worry about being gang-raped in your bedroom.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations.
My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.
We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.
I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.
You will never be completely free from risk if you're free. The only time you can be free from risk is when you're in prison.
Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.
I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.
One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino.